Former vice President and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has  describe President Muhammadu Buhari’s government as one replete with lies.

This is as different support groups canvasing for the former vice president  overwhelmed control by security agents as the former vice president visited Enugu State, yesterday.

The support groups had in the morning taken over roads leading to Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu and practically obstructed traffic from Emene to GRA state office of the PDP where Abubakar addressed party members amid uncontrollable crowd.

Speaking at the party secretariat, Abubakar said “This government is a government of liars. They promised three million jobs per annum but Nigerians have been losing three million jobs every year.

This job loss has brought the worst form of insecurity in the country. “We are facing challenging times in Nigeria. The economy is at its lowerst ebb and the greatest challenge is unemployment.”

The former vice president stated that the 2019 general elections would be Nigeria’s most crucial poll in which citizens must ensure their votes count. “The is the most crucial election. Make sure you vote and when you vote, stand to protect your votes,” he urged. Atiku also stated that experience stands him out from the crowd, noting that he is the only former vice president running for 2019 presidency.

He said: “No other government has surpassed our strides in governance. So, if you are looking for an experienced person, I am here; if you are looking for a politician that can create jobs and unite Nigeria, I am here.”

The former national chairman of PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo said Abubakar was the only candidate who would implement restructuring, improve Nigeria’s economy and education standards, create jobs and solve poverty and killing issues in the country.

Ogun state governor Ibikunle Amosun received two members of the Ogun State House of Assembly who defected from PDP to the APC, Hon. Akintayo Folakemi representing Yewa South State constituency and Hon. Ojo Viwanu representing Ipokia/Idiroko State constituency.

The National Economic Council (NEC) says the security situation in Benue Sate has improved.

Benue State Deputy Governor, Benson Abounu, briefed State House correspondents after NEC meeting presided over by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad on Thursday declared that the prices of foodstuff have reduced.

A 45-year old woman, Modinat Morufu, has been arrested after she disgraced another lady, Bolaji Ogunleye, in public by attacking and stripping her naked over suspicion of betrayal in Lagos.

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The shocking incident happened at Ekoro junction in Abule Egba area of Lagos where Modinat  accosted Bolaji and attacked her and one man identified as Ojugbele Azeez believed to be Modinat’s lover.

It was not certain if Bolaji deliberately snatched Azeez from Modinat before the fight broke out but police source said that the cause of the fight between the two women had to do with the Azeez.

She has been arrested and charged before court for conduct likely to cause breach of public peace and assault on the victim.

It was gathered that Modinat vented her anger on the victim when she met her with Azeez and rained blows on both of them before she tore the Ankara native clothes she was wearing. Bolaji was stripped naked down to her pant and bra before assistance came to cover her nude. Modinat also attacked Azeez which suggested that she might have been betrayed by the victims.

However, her action landed her in trouble as she was handed over to the police and was detained for her conduct before she being charged before Ogba Magistrates court for the offence.

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She pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutor, Mr. Salami Olugbenga, did not oppose her being bail but asked the court to give a short date for adjournment for trial.

Thus, the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. M.I. Dan-Oni, granted Modinat bail in the sum of  with one surety in like sum.

She was remanded in prison custody pending when she will perfect her bail condition.

The matter was adjourned till 11th September, 2018.

The Lagos State Government on Thursday totally played down a report on social media alleging that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was making some moves against non-indigenes especially Igbos in the State, saying the report was baseless, mischievous and irresponsible.

POLITICS of defection has often created a gulf between govenors and their deputies across dispensations. In some states, the parting of ways were managed with maturity and tolerance. In others governors simply turned the heat on their deputies to either whip into line or force their exit through removals by the legislature.

Ogun Landloard Kills Himself, Then Leaves Suicide Note Blaming His Son

Adewale Majekolagbe has taken his life after hanging himself in a rope at his house in Majekolagbe Street, Ibafo, Ogun State.
The 59-year-old had disappeared from the community on Tuesday and had also stopped taking his telephone calls. Concerned residents forced the door to his house open and found his body dangling from the rope.

A resident, who sighted a suicide note said the deceased blamed his son for his suicide.

According to him, the note read, ‘(Son’s name withheld), you are the one that put me into this problem, which made me to take my life. 3.35pm.’ .

Reports says the deceased’s son owed some people over N1m, adding that the debt was put on Majekolagbe.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, adding that the police had a copy of the suicide note.

This is different. Nigerians are used to seeing different church signposts and banners, some as serious, while some are very hilarious. A new banner by a church based in Benin, capital city of Edo state, has got people talking and the reason is obvious.

The church banner was designed for the forthcoming one-week programme starting from this Sunday, with the theme ‘Na My Matter Go Kill You’.

The senior pastor of the church, Apostle Samuel Ekenedilichukwu, is inviting members of the public for the programme which he says will be explosive.

Christian Chukwu, former Super Eagles coach and captain, on Thursday said that the retirement of Nigerian born Chelsea player, Victor Moses, from international football was a matter of decision and not age.

Chukwu said that Moses knew about his body faculty more than any person. He said that the decision should be read from the player’s personal opinion and not from the age.

“Victor Moses is a very vibrant and young player, so he has the right to take decisions for himself. “He knows his body more than any person, therefore, it is best known for him why he retired and we wish him well,’’ Chukwu said.

The Chelsea player announced a surprise international retirement. He did this in a series of twitter posts and pictures citing his club career development and family as part of his reasons for the decision.

The former Stoke City, Westham and Liverpool player, thanked Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, the coaching staff, Nigerians and indeed the NFF for their support and opportunity given him while playing for the national team. Moses, 27, scored 12 goals in 37 appearances for the Super Eagles.

Moses was instrumental in Super Eagles conquering of Africa in 2013, and represented the country in two World Cups – 2014 and 2018. No reactions have come out from NFF over this development.

However, his Chelsea teammate, Eden Hazard, has wished him well in his future endeavours.

Hazard twitted “Congratulations! You made your country proud’’.

A 78-year-old woman, Benice Ikerionwu, is said to be stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. According to Iwuchukwu Benneth, a staff with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the woman arrived the airport on Monday, August 13th, and was left stranded by her son who was meant to pick her up.

A passenger who saw the woman crying profusely at the airport as she had no money or phone with her – notified the airport authorities who tried contacting her family without any positive response.
Read the report shared by Iwuchukwu online;

Please,this 78years woman Mrs Benice Ikerionwu arrived at Lagos Int Airport on Lufthansa airline on Monday 13/8/18 around 5pm and has been stranded there as she had no money,phone nor contact of Relation on her as at late nite that day.

She told us that her son Chimezie Ikerionwu was coming from Abuja to pick her on arrival but he was no where to be found as she was crying like a baby when one Bimpe kemi an arrived passenger noticed her and reported to Airport Security and was with her at Tango city and Servicom elderly lounge all through the nite and also gave her money to eat when leaving in the morning.

Yesterday her daughter chinwe Irabor nee ikerionwu was contacted thru her phone numbers got from the Airline as she booked her mothers ticket,but she refuse to cooperate with the Aviation security official who called her by not disclosing her two Brothers living at Ikeja and Ajegunle numbers to him instead she claimed that they had picked and that she slept at the sons house at Ajegunle.

please Isiala Mbano indigenes or anyone that knows Chinwe Irabor,Chimezie or any of the Ikerionwus should call them to come to Lagos international Airport and pick their mother who has been stranded.they should come to Tango City and pick her.

A woman took her agitation to another level during a protest this morning by staff of Makurdi local government area of Benue state. The staff were protesting against the non-payment of their 13 months salaries.

One of the employees decided to lay in the middle of the road – temporarily stopping vehicles from moving as the security men and others looked on.

When interviewed some of the protesters said they have been removed from the payroll for no genuine reason and called for help from the government as some of their colleagues have died already while some are battling with high blood pressure and related sicknesses.

A Venezuelan opposition lawmaker almost stripped down naked, showing just his briefs, during an emotional debate in front of the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday.

Gilber Caro, a member of the hardline opposition party Popular Will, called for unity and the support of Juan Requesens, 29, an opposition leader who was accused and jailed for allegedly having a role in an assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro on August 4 during a military celebration.

Caro hailed Requesens as ‘a brilliant young man. A young man who gave it his all in the streets.’

‘It’s the moment. I call for unity in this institution so that we can defend it the way Requesens was out in the street defending the institution and Venezuela’s liberty,’ he said.

Moments later, Caro, 43, removed his sports coat as he questioned everyone in attendance, ‘where does a man’s dignity rest?,’ before tearing his dress shirt off and walking to the other side of the chamber.

The politician momentarily paused to take his pants off and then blamed the president’s administration of stripping its citizens basic rights to food and medicine.

He himself spent 17 months imprisoned after Maduro accused him of carrying out terror attacks in 2016 before he regained his freedom in June.

‘A man’s dignity and love is not carried inside what I just finished removing,’ Caro yelled. ‘The dignity is in the heart and we carry Venezuela in the heart, [too].’

Hours after Caro’s emotional tirade, a court in Caracas kept Requesens detained along with two other high-ranking military officials, whose exact roles in the alleged assassination plot weren’t revealed.

Requesens, 29, has been charged with seven counts, including, terrorism, illegal possession of firearms and explosives, treason and attempted homicide.

The government steadfastly claims that opposition factions conspired with assailants in Miami and Bogota, although they have not shown any supporting evidence.

The corpse of Nigerian man identified as Obinna, who died last year after suffering a heart attack, has arrived Nigeria eight months after his demise. The deceased was said to have fled to his friend’s house to hide as Indonesian immigration officers were after him in December 2017.

He suffered a heart attack while he was seating on a chair. The immigration officers broke the door and found him dead on the chair.

His corpse which was since deposited in a morgue – left Jakarta, Indonesia for Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, August 12th ahead of his burial.

There was pandemonium at the All Progressives Congress (APC), secretariat at Garrison in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state, after some thugs were involved in a clash. The political thugs gathered at the secretariat amid the brewing tension between the two factions of the party in the state led by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, and Senator Magnus Abe respectively.

Police operatives who arrived the scene dispersed the thugs with teargas and gunshots and everyone took to their heels.

This is coming few days after the new APC secretariat in Rivers state was vandalised by unknown political thugs.

The destroyed property was built and donated to the party by Senator Abe.

It was learnt that the thugs, allegedly protected by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, stormed the secretariat located along Aba road after Waterlines Junction in Port Harcourt at about 8.45am, broke the glass doors, window louvres and pulled down the iron poles bearing the party flags.

Also, portraits of President Muhammadu Buhari, National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, and that of the parallel Acting Chairman of the state APC, Peter Odike, were damaged by the hoodlums.

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The  Online media practitioners association of Nigeria (OMPAN) has condemned the continued detention of Premium Times journalist Samuel Ogundipe who was arrested on  Wednesday by SARS now (FSARS) for carrying out his professional duties inline with the ethics of journalism.

According to a pres release Signed by Ismaila Yahaya Kana the PRO of OMPAN and  obtained by IGBERE TV on Wednesday, OMPAN frowned at the undemocratic activities of the Police, saying that Nigeria is fast becoming a banana republic and subsequently called for the immediate and unconditional release of the journalist.

The statement reads in full:

Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria is shocked at the arrest of Samuel Ogundipe of PremiumTimes, and condemns strongly, his continued detention by the Nigerian police for refusing to give up his sources.

OMPAN joins other well meaning local and international organization to call for his immediate and unconditional release as well as unfreezing of his account.

OMPAN wonders why only Samuel Ogundipe was singled out for this unlawful, evil and undemocratic arrest when so many online and print media houses carried the story in question.

It is very strange that in a country that claims to be practicing democracy, a member of the fourth realm can be arrested and detained by the police without provocation.

OMPAN wants to stress that Mr Samuel Ogundipe was well within his rights to report the said letter and should not be held responsible for the inability of the Nigerian Police to manage its confidentiality or put a tight lid on all the sensitive documents it wants to keep away from the public.

The fact that Mr Samuel Ogundipe was exercising his constitutionally protected right as a journalist can never be overemphasized and not even the Nigerian police has the power to take that away from him.

OMPAN notes with chagrin that Nigeria is fast becoming a Banana republic because of the high handedness of the police and other security agencies and this is not acceptable in a democratic dispensation.

OMPAN wants to state very clearly that Nigerians can no longer tolerate this Military Junta style that the police is adopting to silence reporters and starting with the immediate and unconditional release of Samuel Ogundipe, the police must desist from further embarrassing Nigeria in the eye of the international community.

The Nigerian police has already inflicted a great deal of pain on innocent and law abiding Nigerians already and this must stop!

OMPAN recalls how SARS officers arrested, molested and compelled its members in Owerri to pay a huge bribe before matching them to an ATM to withdraw the bribe money or risk being implicated to a crime. But for the resourcefulness of the Journalists in procuring incontrovertible pictorial evidence of that event, they probably would have been held in similar fashion as Samuel Ogundipe.

This is unacceptable. The police must as a matter urgency retrace its footsteps and toe the path of civility and service to humanity as is commensurate with their profession the world over. The statement concluded.

The Nigeria Police Force have made first public statement on the arrest and detention of Premium Times’ journalist, Samuel Ogundipe.

Speaking on the reported arrest, the police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said he was not aware of details of the arrest.

Moshood, who spoke on Wednesday during AIT’s breakfast programme, Kakaaki, however pointed out that no Nigerian is beyond being invited by the police when an investigation is being carried out.

“I am not aware of the details of the matter. But what I can say is that any Nigerian, whether a journalist or any member of the public can be invited by an investigating officer to come around so that he or she can clear themselves of any allegations against them. Since you are telling me now, I will find out exactly what is happening,” Moshood said.

The police, through the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), on Tuesday arrested and detained Ogundipe, who covers the security sector for Premium Times.

Many Nigerians, activists, lawyers and groups have called for the unconditional and immediate release of the reporter who is still in detention as at press time.

Members of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Electoral Matters on Wednesday in Abuja met with top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, led by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.

The Committee chairman, Aisha Dukku, a member representing Dukku/Nafada federal constituency, said the meeting was in view of proposed the 2019 elections budget and the controversies therein.

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A woman who has been killing people in Idima Abam in Arochuku LGA,Abia state has been caught and disgraced publicly with her juju.According to report,she has killed many people in the village.One of the Facebook users said….

A senator of the second republic and prominent lawyer, Sen. Cyrus Nunyieh, who got married eleven months ago, has died. The 88-year-old lawmaker until his death was the first and oldest lawyer of Ogoni extraction.

Sen. Cyrus Nunyieh, Ogoni first lawyer has died

The president President of Bori State Movement, made headlines after getting married to his younger heartthrob, Miss Ijeoma (said to be in her 40’s) in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state capital in October 2017.

Cyrus Nunieh, said he decided to marry another wife because he was alone and needed a companion after his wife’s death in 1991.

Nunieh pointed out that his children were all adults, who had ventured into various business of their own, adding that he could no longer cope with loneliness.

He described his new wife, Rosemary, as an intelligent woman, who would always be there for him and share ideas with him.

His death was announced this morning by the Ogoni Youth Federation.

Read the press statement below;

OBITUARY

The national executive council of Ogoni Youth federation (OYF), received with rude shock the sad news of the demise of her Patron, Sen. Cyrus Nunieh, a senator of the second republic and renowned legal icon who has gone to be with his creator

We express our sympathy to the bereaved family, Ogoni ethnic nationality and Rivers state . We pray that almighty God will grant the soul of the departed eternal repose and comfort those in pain

Accept our heartfelt condolences in this time of grief

Lene Kingsley Lekue,
Publicity Secretary
OYF.

The Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly has declared Seats of Defectors Vacant. The affected members are Hon.John Audu Kwaturu & Hon. Junaidu Yakubu, representing Kachia & Kudan Constituencies respectively.

The Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly has declared Seats of Defectors Vacant. The affected members are Hon.John Audu Kwaturu & Hon. Junaidu Yakubu, representing Kachia & Kudan Constituencies respectively.

They defected from APC to PDP

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has attributed the escalation of the recent crisis in the National Assembly to the circulation of fake news, especially in the Social Media.

The Minister stated this in Abuja on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of Blueprint Newspapers, in furtherance of the Federal Government’s campaign against fake news, which was launched 11 July 2018.

“When we launched the campaign, we did not envisage the kind of event that occurred at the National Assembly last week, specifically Aug. 7 – Less than one month after the launch. That event, during which the National Assembly was barricaded, is a classic example of how fake news can aggravate conflicts. In fact, it was driven all the way by fake news

”A serving Senator led the fake news onslaught, claiming that only APC members were being allowed into the chambers as a ploy to impeach the Senate President while PDP members were barred – FAKE NEWS! No APC members was in the chambers at the time!” he said.

Alhaji Mohammed said but for the timely intervention of the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the situation could have deteriorated and brought great opprobrium on the country.

He said that in the aftermath of the crisis, news that 21 billion Naira and assorted weapons have been found in the residence of the sacked Director-General of the DSS also turned out to be fake.

The Minister said fake news remains a clear and present danger to the nation’s unity and democracy, and indeed to the very survival of the country, adding that it cannot and must not be treated with levity.

He admonished Nigerians to always check the source of any news item before sharing it, saying”Don’t share whatever you can’t vouch for.”

Alhaji Mohammed stressed the need for the media to take the lead in the campaign against the phenomenon of fake news which, he said, has the capacity to erode the credibility of the media.

He said the visit to the corporate headquarters of the Blueprint was to enlist the newspaper’s support for the campaign against fake news as well as to thank the news medium for not allowing its platform to be used to spread fake news.

Segun Adeyemi
SA To Hon Minister of Information and Culture
Abuja
14Aug2018

The United State’s Embassy has temporarily closed its consular section in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.

A notice by the U.S. embassy on Tuesday said until further notice, all consular appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja have temporarily ceased for both visa and for American Citizen Services.